Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Writes Alex & Books, a site of book recommendations, summaries and reading tips drawn from more than 750 books; he started it as a book blog after a bike crash.

Alex & Books

Alex & Books

5 articles · 13 books they recommend

Recommends 13Writing 5
More 2
12 Rules for Life12 Rules for Life
T4 12 Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Twelve rules for living, each drawn from clinical practice, biology and myth.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ana Fabrega, Andrew Wilkinson and 6 others

A Calendar of WisdomA Calendar of Wisdom
T4 A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy
Goodreads
MeditationsMeditations
T1 Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 1626
Open LibraryGoodreads

A Roman emperor's private notes reminding himself to live by Stoic principles.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant and 16 others

The Almanack of Naval RavikantThe Almanack of Naval Ravikant
T4 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Naval Ravikant's ideas on building wealth and being happy, gathered from his talks.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Nat Eliason and 8 others

Steal Like an ArtistSteal Like an Artist
T4 Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Ten short lessons on creative work: nothing is original, so copy well.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ali Abdaal, Chase Jarvis and 1 other

The War of ArtThe War of Art
T3 The War of Art
Steven Pressfield · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Pressfield's book on resistance applies with particular force to musicians, where the gap between technical facility and creative output is often enormous. The concept of 'turning pro' — treating creative work as a practice with professional discipline regardless of whether it pays — is the mental shift that separates hobbyists from people who actually finish records.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal and 10 others

Can't Hurt MeCan't Hurt Me
T4 Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

From abused child and 300-pound exterminator to Navy SEAL, and how to get tough.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal, Anthony Pompliano and 6 others

Discipline Equals FreedomDiscipline Equals Freedom
T4 Discipline Equals Freedom
Jocko Willink · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
Man's Search for Meaning
T4 Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads

Life in Nazi concentration camps, and logotherapy: finding meaning to survive.

Also recommended by: Frank Martin, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 23 others

MindsetMindset
T2 Mindset
Carol S. Dweck · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

People who think ability grows with effort learn more than those who think it fixed.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Brené Brown and 12 others

How to Read a BookHow to Read a Book
T4 How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler · 1940
Open LibraryGoodreads

A method for reading hard books for understanding, not just information.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Kevin Systrom, Shane Parrish and 1 other

TrimalchioTrimalchio
T4 Trimalchio
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads
How To Win Friends and Influence PeopleHow To Win Friends and Influence People
T2 How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie · 1936
Open LibraryGoodreads

Techniques for handling people, being liked and winning others to your view.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alexis Ohanian and 12 others